Hey, Right now Entity metadata such as version and last-modified is handled separately from other Properties. This makes it impossible to use queries with them, which sometimes would be convenient (e.g. "list all entities modified after date X").
I would suggest that we change so that version and last-modified become real Properties, declared in Entity interface like so: ComputedProperty<long> version(); ComputedProperty<long> lastModified(); and then the EntityStore updates them as per usual. This would enable querying of this data quite easily: // Find entities modified the last minute QueryBuilder<Entity> entities = qbf.newQueryBuilder(Entity.class); Entity entity = templateFor( Entity.class ); entities.where( gt( entity.lastModified(), new Date().getTime()-60000 ); ); Query<Nameable> query = qb.newQuery(); --- For caching purposes there are also other kinds of metadata that would make sense to add as Entity Properties, such as Expires and MaxAge. Especially MaxAge would be nice to have as a Property, because then we can set per-instance what is the allowed caching policy through the usual UnitOfWork mechanism. Neat! Anyone see drawbacks with making this metadata as Properties? /Rickard _______________________________________________ qi4j-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/qi4j-dev
